Re: OpenOffice installation?

Disclaimer: Personal opinions follow. None of them are official
statements by Ximian.


On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 18:54, jack wallen wrote:
> just playing devil's advocate here but couldn't that be look upon as a
> move simply because of the monetary ties between SuSE, Ximian, and
> Novell? 
> 
> the reason i ask that is you have an employee of Ximian - Mark Gordon -
> (which is owned, i'm assuming) by Novell now suggesting to users that if
> you want to use XD2 you should switch to SuSE.
> 
> i would think in the Open Source community that would look pretty bad.

I don't like the direction of this comment, although I am totally aware
you are just exaggerating.


Mark has proven to be very helpful [1] in the past, regardless of the
distribution used. He has never ever tried anyone to switch to a
particular distribution. And as far as I do know him, he won't.

Please remember: This is not an Evolution mailing list, nor is it a
Connector mailing list. This is a list for "General discussion of Ximian
software" [2]. This is a user forum and not an official support line.
Mark (as an employee of Ximian / Novell) does support the users anyway.

Besides that, please don't forget that XD2 is pretty much outdated these
days. Gnome 2.2 isn't the freshest software any more... ;)


I felt the strong urge to contribute to this thread, as Mark in
particular and Ximian in general was questioned. Marks reply [3] is
perfectly outlining the facts.

...guenther


[1] Sure, there are many others being very helpful, too. Regular users,
who just like to discuss their favorite software, believe in the Open
Source Community and spend a lot of their spare time to help others.

[2] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/users

[3] http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2004-April/013606.html


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